Dialing With Your Thoughts

The Weeknd revealed, a personal beer factory and brain-controlled computing in this week's look at the web

You can finally force your phone to read your mind. Researcher Tzyy-Ping Jung has developed an interface based on electroencephalogram electrodes where people can ‘dial numbers’ without their hands. The system relies on the intensity of brain frequencies when concentrating on different numbers and allows users to to dial on the keyboard just using brain power.

Stripe Spotter

The Weeknd revealed, a personal beer factory and brain-controlled computing in this week's look at the web

With an innovative use of pattern recognition software, Stripe Spotter has the ability to identify animals based on snapshots of their patterns (like the unique identifying marks on a zebra, as pictured). Developed at the Computational Population Biology laboratory at the University of Illinois, and the Equid Research and Conservation laboratory at Princeton, it will be unveiled at the International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval in …

Who is The Weeknd?

The Weeknd revealed, a personal beer factory and brain-controlled computing in this week's look at the web

Complex attempts to clear up a few questions about the latest young, gifted and black music artist to come up on the Internet with a brand of crossover music. The University of Toronto student Abel Tesfaye, assumed to be 20 years old, is rumored to have worked with Drake, among other Canadian music biz heavies.